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Apps to help you prepare for exams




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News from around the world.




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Why not a students’ day?

The teacher-student bond is not a one-way process but a journey in which one learns from the other.




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The last-leg sprint

Calm down and prepare your body and mind to meet the challenge of the Boards.




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CBSE asks schools to urge students to download PM’s mobile app




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As exams near, students present, teachers absent

As teachers attend training programme, students in govt. and aided schools are left to fend for themselves




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How to reduce stress levels this March

‘Parents and teachers should stop focussing on results so much and be supportive of students’.




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More options with IB, IGCSE

These curricula prepare students for a university experience at home and abroad.




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A science Olympiad for juniors

The selection process and training happens for a whole year before the IJSO.




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A lesson in hidden agendas

The assault on the Right to Education Act and government schools is motivated. It is definitely not in the interest of India’s children, especially those from less privileged households




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Look beyond the textbooks

Students need to deal with real life situations and identify their areas of interest. Modifying the school curricula would help achieve this.




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Odisha: Board of Secondary Education to announce HSC results at 10 a.m.




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ICSE, ISC exam results to be declared on May 6




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Delhi University drops controversial book




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Reach out for support

Unhappy with your results? Don't bottle up your feelings.




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Boys in co-ed schools excel in science subjects




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Mixed response to maths marks

Schools report drop in average score; some students disappointed but take it in their stride




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Over a lakh score ‘Perfect 10’ in CBSE Class X exams




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Implement no detention policy till Class V in schools: panel

‘Hold examinations from Class VI onwards’




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School in Raj Bhavan sees decline in number of students




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A degree of difference

Vinod Muralidhar, the founder of Culvee Trust, says enabling a bright but underprivileged student to get to college can make the world a better place




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Thane govt. officers to adopt schools




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A check at every stop

Falcon, a child safety app, helps to keep a tab on your child as he or she makes their way back home from school




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Eggs vanish from the plate as allocation is cut

Puducherry government’s reduced outlay for nutrition casts a shadow over the mid-day meal scheme




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Special children at their creative best

French artist Matthieu Charbonneau guides Satya Special School children to express themselves




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Master plan for fund utilisation at schools




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An initiative to boost sports education in the country

Through TENVIC Sports, sportsmen Anil Kumble and Vasanth Bharadwaj are integrating sports education with the formal academic curriculum.




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Creativity labs in schools soon

KITCO proposes Creativity and Innovation Lab@School in government schools across the State




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Noida government school students “in the dark” for months

Several schools in Gautam Budh Nagar without electricity since April as Education Department failed to clear dues




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High Court tells CBSE to re-evaluate Political Science answer sheet

Board against revaluation despite verification revealing that student had been marked wrongly




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Maharashtra govt. makes exams ‘fail-safe’

Now on, mark sheets of candidates who fail will read ‘Eligible for Re-Exam’




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Review ‘No Detention’, give States discretion to hold exams : CABE




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CBSE asks schools to share details of amenities, fees

Even safety measures and educational qualification of their teaching staff will have to be disclosed




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CBSE Class X, XII exams from March 9

Class X exams will end on April 10; Class XII exams will end on April 29




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The Hindu Science Quiz — Of droopy dogs and killer whales




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The Hindu Science Quiz: Of Venus craters and Chinese astronauts

What does China call its astronaut and who predicted communication satellites? For answers, and more questions take this quiz.




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Staff shortage affects Kendriya Vidyalayas

Lack of career advancement, transfer policy leave principals bitter, as teaching vacancies climb to 12,044




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Eklavya Model Residential Schools face teacher shortage

The Tribal Affairs Ministry works towards centralising administration and doing away with state-level societies  




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Principal Secretary to inspect State-run schools, hostels in Andhra Pradesh

The implementation of State flagship programmes in the government schools and hostels to be the focus of the inspection.




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Data reveal: 819 schools in A.P. have no toilets, 16,159 have no tap water

As many as 30 governemnt schools have not drinking water facility; all schools in Aspirational District Y.S.R. Kadapa have drinking water supply, says data.




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Not declaring deletions on Mahatma Gandhi, RSS in textbooks an ‘oversight’, says NCERT head

The issue is being blown out of proportion, says D.P. Saklani, reacting to the controversy over the removal of sentences on Gandhiji and the RSS; Congress president Kharge says the BJP cannot erase history, no matter how hard it tries




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Chennai Corporation Schools register 88.86% pass in Plus Two examination

A total of 5,899 students of 32 Corporation schools appeared for the examination. As many as 2,129 boys and 2,995 girls cleared it. The pass percentage among boys was 81.07 while among the girls it was 91.5.




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Moonshot : the Indigenous comicgs collection.




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365 : how to count a year / Miranda Paul + Julien Chung

Paul, Miranda, author




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Astronomy for curious kids : an illustrated introduction to the Solar System, our galaxy, space travel--and more! / [Giles Sparrow ; illustrated by Nik Neves]

Sparrow, Giles, 1970- author




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Biindigen! : Amik says welcome / Nancy Cooper ; illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

Cooper, Nancy, 1967- author




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Biogeology / by Christina Earley

Earley, Christina, author




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The boy who harnessed the wind / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon

Kamkwamba, William, 1987- author




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Change is in the air : carbon, climate, Earth, and us / Debbie Levy ; illustrated by Alex Boersma

Levy, Debbie, author